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SPACE NEWS: Rare ‘Christmas star’ to appear in sky for first time in 800 years – 7NEWS.com.au

Here’s what will be seen and how to see it.

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Four days before Christmas, the sky will offer a sight that hasnt been seen since the Middle Ages and may have inspired one of the Bibles most famous stories.
The two largest planets in the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, will be so close to one another in the sky on December 21 that they will appear to be fused into a single point of light.
The last time this is believed to have been witnessed was in the year 1226, according to Michael Shanahan, the director of the Liberty Science Center Planetarium…

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